Chapter 537 Clever Giving, Another Outsmart of Wu Yong
At this time, Shi Xiu was resting in the shade of a tree. He had already leaned Mo Dao on the trunk of a pine tree next to him, but the waist knife on his waist was still held in his arms. A group of escorts nearby,
Most of the coachmen were dripping with sweat and complained about the extremely hot weather. After a while, snoring could be heard, and some coachmen had already fallen asleep due to the cold.
It has been more than half an hour, let alone a strong man, not a single bird has flown over in such hot weather... Shi Xiu thought to himself again: Could it be that my brother is really wrong?
, that Chao Gai from Dongxi Village in Jeju will not come to rob the birthday card?
But Shi Xiu was also a person who was used to being alert, so he did not relax his guard. He licked his chapped lips, and when he just picked up the water bag and was about to quench his thirst, he found that there was not much water left in the water bag.
There are few shops nearby, and there are no mountain springs or clear streams. Although there are shade trees along the way to escape the heat, it would be too difficult to drink all the water in such unbearable weather.
According to Yang Lin, after passing Huangnigang, the escort team escorting the birthday card had to walk for nearly a day before they could reach the nearby Zhuang Town for a light fire and rest. Moreover, the sun was blazing, it was extremely hot, and people had to drink less water.
The amount of water is naturally larger than usual, not to mention that the escort team has just passed through a rugged mountain road, which has consumed a lot of physical strength. Although there is a lot of fresh water in the van, they can't solve the problem of two to three hundred people if they continue at this speed.
The problem of the number one's draft.
Shi Xiu saw that the bodyguard escorting the birthday gang, the coachman and others had also rested. He made up his mind and was about to get up and greet the group to continue on their way, when Xie Duguan, the nanny in the Liang Mansion, approached him.
, said: "I heard that this is the general manager of the Xiao family, Shi Xiu, Shi Sanlang? Thanks to Shi Xiu, Mr. Yang and other people's meticulousness, even though the heat can kill a person, except for the climb over the mountains just now, the journey was not that hard at all.
, when I arrive in Tokyo, I will report it to the Cai Mansion and give you a heavy reward."
It's just that Xie Duguan seemed to be looking at a blind man with his charming eyes. Shi Xiuran just regarded him as a piece of shit and just went to greet the bodyguards. The coachmen got up and continued on their way.
Xie Duguan was startled for a moment, and then his old face darkened. He thought fiercely in his heart: When I was working as a nanny in the Grand Master's Mansion in Tokyo, all the officers and soldiers under my command turned towards me when they saw me.
Lian Sheng. I think you are just a general under the command of the deceased Xiao Tang, not even a general the size of a mustard seed, but you are still having sex with me!
Standing by, Yang Lin looked at Xie Duguan with a gloomy expression. After all, he was more tactful in life, so he walked up to Xie Duguan and thought: "Shi Sanlang is taking care of the chariots and bodyguards all the way, and beware of strongmen coming from all over to rob him. It's like this again."
On a hot day, it is inevitable that I will become tense and irritable, but I don’t mean to play tricks on Du Guan, so I hope you can forgive me.”
Xie Duguan snorted softly, and after only a moment, he stopped Yang Lin and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, head escort, this...the two Yu Hous and I were very thirsty, but the water bags we carried
I’ve also drank all the water in the bottle, and I don’t know where the head escort is…”
After hearing this, Yang Lin called a close associate to take out the water bag from the carriage and delivered it to Xie Duguan. At this time, he also thought to himself: Insufficient water storage is indeed a problem, and the process should indeed be accelerated as soon as possible.
It’s better to rush to the village ahead...
After Shi Xiu, Yang Lin, Xue Yong, and Shi Yong summoned all the bodyguards to rest in Liang, Xiang Yong got up and just after reorganizing the chariot, he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves again, and Bian was just wandering around.
Xiang and Fu Xiang have also led 20 riders to Huangni Gang.
"Brother Bian Xiang, is everything still peaceful?"
Bian Xiang turned over and dismounted. He wiped away a few large beads of sweat on his face with his big hand like a cattail fan, and said: "There are no strong men ambushing around, but just now I saw that there seemed to be a few buildings on the south side of Huangnigang.
There are also some walking men coming and going in the pavilion, and it seems they are just businessmen going north and south doing business."
Shi Xiu nodded, and he pressed Bian Xiang's clothes tightly against his majestic body. His whole body was already soaked with sweat, and large beads of sweat fell from the forehead of Fu Xiang, the scar-faced tiger beside him.
Continuously flowing down the slightly raised scar on his face, he said: "Brother Bian Xiang, brother Fu Xiang, it is very hard for you to travel along the way. Why don't you take a rest here in Huangnigang for a while and control you?"
If your horse is fast, then you can catch up with us."
In such a hot weather, even Bian Xiang, a strong man with a body made of iron, couldn't stand it, so he nodded in agreement and ordered Fu Xiang and the twenty riders to tie up their horses and find a place on Huangni Gang.
Take a rest in a shady place in the pine forest.
After Shi Xiu, Yang Lin and others led a group of vehicles and escorts to drive down Huangnigang, after walking for a while, they saw the few pergolas that Bian Xiang had mentioned, and saw those who were taking care of these pergolas.
The shopkeeper who was selling tea had good features and a white face with a long beard. His face didn't look like that of a bad person.
When the tea shop owner saw a large number of convoys coming from Huangnigang, he couldn't help but said in surprise: "In the past, I only saw small traders walking around, but I rarely saw such a big battle! Everyone, come here
What a coincidence, how about some tea to dispel the heat?"
Shi Xiu was looking at the tea shopkeeper with calm eyes, while Yang Lin paid attention to the situation around him. He walked forward for a few more steps, and then he discovered that there were several emergency vehicles lined up next to a pergola, and in Taiping
Beside the car, there were several men hiding under the awning to enjoy the cool air. The leader of the group of men stuck his head out, glanced in the direction of the escort team, then laughed and said, "I have heard many people say
There are often thieves robbing merchants here in Huangnigang. We are just selling dates on our way to Tokyo in a small business. We don’t have much wealth. We were afraid that the people coming down from the post were gangsters, but when we saw the escort flags, we turned out to be escorts.
People who make a living, since you all have nothing to do all the way, what do we, the small-time brokers, have to worry about?"
The man who spoke had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a thick black beard under his chin. He was handsome and good-looking. But Yang Lin's attention was focused on the man sitting next to the man, because the weather was hot for that man.
Nao, strip naked and enjoy the coolness there...
The most conspicuous thing is that he has a cinnabar mark on his temples.
Yang Lin had a thought in his mind, but before he could signal to Shi Xiu, he saw a man with a deer-like head and mouse eyes from behind the pergola, carrying a pair of buckets. However, the pair of buckets he picked were more unique and imitated.
Bamboo weaving style, exquisitely made, with a large mouth and a small bottom, a bucket-shaped appearance, lined with lead leaves, with small drainage holes at the bottom, and a structure similar to a wooden barrel.
Although he rested in the Huangnigang pine forest for more than half an hour, Shi Yong still felt hot and dry. He licked his cracked lips and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, what kind of tea do you have? We have During the escort trip, you cannot drink alcohol!"
Xiao's bodyguards never drink alcohol when they are escorts. I have already known this for a long time... The tea shopkeeper thought in his heart and smiled at Shi Xiu, Shi Yong and others: "How about... Why are you here by chance? In such a hot weather, it is refreshing to use this product to dispel the heat."
At this moment, they saw the man with the deer-headed and mouse-like eyes opening the bucket and pulling open the compartment. Suddenly, a cold air rose in the air like a steam oven. It turned out that most of the buckets they carried had been smashed with chisels. of ice cubes.
When the summer was hot, the ancients usually relied on fans, cool houses, porcelain pillows, ice mirrors and other utensils to escape the heat. In the Song Dynasty, during the twelfth lunar month of winter every year, thick ice would form in the river, and people were used to it. The ice cubes are chiseled off, transported to an underground ice cellar specially designed to store ice cubes, sealed tightly, and shipped out piece by piece in the next summer.
And in the hot summer season, cold drinks will be sold on both sides of the streets in various prefectures in the Song Dynasty. The cold drink stalls hold large green cloth umbrellas and mahogany tables and chairs under the umbrellas, selling "ice, snow and licorice soup". "Bingxue Leng Yuanzi", "raw submerged papaya", "cold water lychee paste", "iced sour plum soup" and other cold drinks.
Although this method of dispelling the heat is more common in the more prosperous state capitals, it is not uncommon for wealthy families in the countryside to store ice cubes and ask people to take them out to sell iced drinks in the summer.
In this kind of weather that is almost drying people out, Xie Du of the Liang Mansion is in charge of the two Yu Hou and many escorts escorting the birthday card. The coachman looks at the large ice-cold bowl served with ice in the pergola. The tea was straightened up immediately, and a few men selling dates in the pergola over there took big gulps of tea and exclaimed that they were happy. However, the escort team felt that their throats seemed to be smoking and on fire again, and their throats were rising and falling. I scrolled quickly, looking at the big bowl of tea and the ice cubes in the bucket in front of me, as if I was staring closely at a beautiful and naked girl.
The tea shop owner saw clearly the expressions of the men in the escort team, and the light in his eyes disappeared slightly. At this time, he secretly said in his heart: You have many men, and according to your rules, they don't know how to drink, but they are exactly the same. Because there are so many of you, you consume a lot, and there are few shops nearby. How can you survive the heat and thirst without drinking tea?
